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SpaceX Iridium-4 launch from Vandenberg AFB, Ca this evening atop a Falcon-9 rocket. Photo: SpaceX SpaceX has closed out 2017 with a personal-best-beating 18th launch, more than twice as many as it has ever previously achieved in a single calendar year. Its 230-foot-tall (70-meter) Upgraded Falcon 9 booster rose majestically from Space Launch […] 
The Upgraded Falcon 9 sprints uphill into crystal-clear Florida skies to deliver KoreaSat-5A to orbit. Photo Credit: SpaceX/Twitter More than a third of all SpaceX launches have occurred in 2017 alone, as the Hawthorne, Calif.-based launch services provider despatched its 16th Upgraded Falcon 9 of the year on Monday afternoon (30 October) to […] 
The 15th Upgraded Falcon 9 of 2017 launches SES-11 to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). Photo Credit: 45th Space Wing/Twitter Fifteen launches in a single calendar year is a remarkable accolade and earlier tonight (Wednesday, 11 October), SpaceX successfully delivered the heavyweight SES-11 communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), atop its venerable Upgraded […] 
The Upgraded Falcon 9 rises into the gloom at 11:51 a.m. PDT on Thursday, 24 August. Photo Credit: Robert C. Fisher/AmericaSpace SpaceX successfully delivered one of its smallest primary payloads into orbit, early Thursday, 24 August, when a mammoth Upgraded Falcon 9 booster lifted off from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-4E at Vandenberg Air […] 
A successful test fire of the Falcon 9 for next week’s CRS-12 launch, NET Aug 14. Photo Credit: AmericaSpace/Jeff Seibert UPDATED Aug 10: SpaceX conducted a successful static test fire of the Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A today, scheduled to launch CRS-12 next week. Watch our video of today’s test fire below: […] 
SpaceX successfully launches its tenth Upgraded Falcon 9 of 2017 at 7:38 p.m. EDT on 5 July 2017. Photo Credit: SpaceX/Twitter SpaceX and Pad 39A established another record this evening (Wednesday, 5 July), as the personal-best-beating tenth Upgraded Falcon 9 of 2017 roared into space and the historic, Apollo-era complex saw its second […] 
Bulgaria’s first national communications satellite launches atop the eighth Upgraded Falcon 9 of 2017. Photo Credit: SpaceX For the record-tying eighth time in a single calendar year, SpaceX has successfully launched one of its Falcon 9 boosters to deliver a payload into orbit. At 3:10 p.m. EDT on Friday, 23 June—60 minutes into […] 
Pad 39A plays host to its 99th launch in almost 50 years, with the rousing pre-sunset ascent of SpaceX’s Upgraded Falcon 9 at 7:21 p.m. EDT Monday, 15 May. Photo Credit: Alan Walters / AmericaSpace Six months shy of five decades since its first launch, historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center […] 
The SES-10 satellite hitching a ride to orbit on SpaceX’s first reused Falcon-9, which also landed successfully minutes later on the company’s offshore autonomous drone ship. Photo Credit: John Studwell / AmericaSpace History was made this evening (Thursday, 30 March), when SpaceX successfully launched the first “re-used” rocket stage on a second mission […] 
A perspective of the ascending Upgraded Falcon 9, as seen from the north. Photo Credit: Mike Killian/AmericaSpace SpaceX successfully scored “three-for-three” in the small hours of Thursday morning, delivering its third Upgraded Falcon 9 booster aloft in as many months in 2017. Following hard on the heels of its first Iridium NEXT launch […] |
 Launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 with Starlink 17 has been delayed once again. Currently the new launch date is To Be Determined. Click here for more details...  |
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